Arvind Kumar

Bernstein Center Freiburg
Hansastr. 9a
79104 Freiburg i.Br.
Tel.: +49 (0)761 203 9574
Fax: +49 (0)761 203 9559

Research Projects

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Research Interests

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Academic Background

2002-2006: PhD studies in computational neuroscience, Neurobiology & Biophysics Albert-Ludwig University, Freiburg, Germany
1999-2000: Masters Engineering (Non-linear Systems). Birla Institute of Technology and Science, Pilani, India.

Professional Activities

2008-present: Action Editor, Neural Computation
2006-present: Reviewer (Journal of Computational Neuroscience, Frontiers in Neuroscience, Journal of Neurophysiology)

Research Positions

2008-present: Assistant Professor in Neurobiology and Biophysics, Faculty of Biology, Albert-Ludwig-University, Freiburg, Germany
2006-2008: Postdoc, Dept. of Neuroscience, Brown University, Providence, RI, USA
2000-2002: Senior research fellow, Indian Institute of Technology, New Delhi, India

Publications

Vlachos I, Herry C, Lüthi A, Aertsen A & Kumar A (2011)
Context dependent encoding of fear and extinction memories in a large-scale network model of the basal amygdala.
PLOS computational Biology. In press.
Kremkow, J., Aertsen, A. & Kumar, A. (2010)
Gating of signal propagation in spiking neural networks by balanced and correlated excitation and inhibition.
J Neurosci 30: 15760-15768. [pdf]
Kumar, A.; Rotter, S. & Aertsen, A. (2010)
Spiking activity propagation in neuronal networks: reconciling different perspectives on neural coding.
Nat Rev Neurosci 11 : 615-627. [pdf]
Kumar, A., Rotter, S., & Aertsen, A. (2008)
Conditions for Propagating Synchronous Spiking and Asynchronous Firing Rates in a Cortical Network Model
J.Neurosci. 28(20):5268-5280. [pdf]
Kumar, A., Schrader, S., Rotter, S., & Aertsen, A. (2008).
The high conductance state of cortical networks.
Neural Computation 20(1): 1-43. [pdf]
Ahmed, OJ., McFarland, JM. and Kumar, A. (2008)
Reactivation in ventral striatum during hippocampal ripples: evidence for the binding of reward and spatial memories?
J. Neurosci. 28: 9895-9897.
Kremkow, J., Kumar A., Rotter, S., & Aertsen, A. (2007).
Emergence of population synchrony in a layered network of the cat visual cortex. Neurocomputing, 70 2069–2073. [pdf]
Meier, R., Kumar A., Schulze-Bonhage, A., & Aertsen, A. (2007). Comparison of dynamical states of random networks with human EEG.
Neurocomputing, 70 1843-1847. [pdf]

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